I’ll be sending out the postcards this weekend. Here’s what’s left:

Rather than writing something completely generic, random and lame, I thought I’d draw something on it for you to guess. Yes, it’s my very old-fashion snail-mail version of Draw Something. And since I CAN’T DRAW TO SAVE MY LIFE, you may have a good chuckle when you see what I have doodled.

Be sure to leave me a comment telling me which postcard you’d like, if you’d like to get in on the fun. And just to be on the safe side, you don’t have to leave your email address in the comments. Wouldn’t want you to be spammed now, would we? I’ll be able to see it from my admin panel when you post. :)

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Song of the Day

Tick Tick Boom, by The Hives

I used to be on Postcrossing, a lovely site that allows anyone to send/receive a postcard randomly from anywhere in the world. It’s a lot of fun and it makes checking the mail a lot more exciting. Who cares if I have another bill to pay?

Anyway, I haven’t logged in to Postcrossing for awhile and still have quite a number of postcards that are just sitting around, waiting to have postmarks on them. But rather than sending them out randomly, I thought it may be a nice gesture to send out postcards to people who visit this site (all 10 of you) as a sort of How’s it going and thank you reading my blog kinda gesture. So if you’d like a postcard, be sure to leave me a comment with your email, tell me which design you’d like and I’ll get in touch with you.

Who knows? If it’s enjoyable enough, I may just make this a regular thing. I’ll let you know. :)

Saw this over at Paper Source and while it’s not highly accurate, it’s interesting nonetheless.

Look at the chart and choose the colour(s) that you’re attracted to. Then, click on the image to read what your colour says about you.

I couldn’t decide on just one colour, so I chose Chartreuse, Peacock, Papaya and Gravel.

What colour did you pick? :)

So I figured not every one of my Facebook friends are interested to know whenever I update my blog, hence I’ve created a separate Facebook page for willing participants to stay connected with this blog. Heh. Word of warning though: I’m not just gonna use the page to post updates to the blog, I’ll also be sharing things I fancy (mostly stuff related to design/style/covetables) so if you’re the sort who gets easily distracted, liking my page is not gonna help improve your productivity. ;)

In other news, I’m looking to embark on a reeeeeally simple craft project this week, since I have some time on my hands and I’m doing whatever I can to ignore any sort of work that I should/could be doing… *coughs* Judging from what I have in the house, it looks like I’m probably going to create a cushion cover from old clothes.

In my mind, it’s supposed to turn out looking like this:

Or like this:

I’ll let you know how it goes. ;)

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Song of the Day

If It Makes You Happy, by Sheryl Crow

I’d originally wanted to save this video for this week’s Saturday Selections, but I couldn’t wait, because I figured it may just be the thing to brighten up someone’s mid-week blues. :)

Be warned though. It is ridiculous and extremely catchy. But it also put a huge, stupid smile on my face. Then again, I do like stupid. :p

It’s Wednesday. You’re tired from three full days of hard work and you can’t wait for the weekend to come. But you realise you still have to overcome the dreaded fact that there’s still Thursday to get through before the party mood can even kick in. What do you do?

Cheer yourself up with a gif of Ryan Gosling being adorable, of course.

While gawking at this extremely endearing man, you’re suddenly hit by this question:

Is Ryan Gosling Cuter than a Puppy?

I don’t know, man. The verdict’s still out on this one.

What do you think?

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Song of the Day

Maybe I’m Amazed, by Paul McCartney

Oh look, an old iMac!

Wait a minute…

Is that what I think it is?

OH MY GOSH…

It’s a Macquarium!

Spotted over at Flavorwire, this gorgeous aquarium is the ultimate in geekery. The very aptly-named Macquarium recycles old Apple G3 iMacs and comes complete with a filter and lights. There’s even a variety of colours to choose from and it ships internationally. You know what this means right??

I can’t wait to own fish again! :p

(all pictures taken from here)

Today, one of my students told me to use my serious voice while I was teaching him how to structure his essay. He claims he wouldn’t be able to concentrate if I used my joking voice. A quick mental check and I realised that my serious voice is lower pitched, as compared to my joking voice which is – you guessed it – higher.

Then I was immediately reminded of my dear friend who once told me that she changed her GPS’ voice to a male voice cos it sounded more authoritative than the default female one. Guess whose voice had a lower pitch?

Do deeper voices really command more authority? According to my student and my friend, it sure seems that way. Naturally, I did a Google search to find out if there were theories on this. Here’s what I found:

- Deep voices ‘show leadership’
- Obama uses his deep voice and jutting jaw to project authority
- Why women who want to get ahead get a husky voice

There’s even an online video course (the video’s hilarious by the way):

I rolled my eyes a whole lot at first, thinking this theory needs dispelling, but it later dawned on me that it has some semblance of truth. I look back on all the times when I’m in full-on “lecture mode” and I always spoke in a lower tone. And the fact that many still make fun of boys/men with higher-pitched voices, does indeed suggest the lack of authority (we’d never make fun of a man with a rich-sounding bass tone).

I’m sure there are plenty of leaders out there who don’t have a James Earl Jones sound (you have to watch his take on Bieber), but people do tend to take you a little more seriously when you have that deeper tone. It lends credibility to the overall image, I guess. After all, it worked for Steve Urkel when he became… Stefan.

Yeah, I miss this show too.

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Song of the Day, because the band did such a good job on that latest episode of SNL. :p

Beth/Rest, by Bon Iver

Me: What’s your favourite subject?
Her: Recess
Me: That’s not a subject!
Her: It is! If not, why is it on the timetable?

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(just after Liverpool scored)

Me: Woo!!
Her: What happened?
Me: My team just scored!
Her: Then why do they have to hold each other’s heads?
Me: Cos they’re celebrating!
Her: They should just kick each other.

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(while playing Pictionary)

Me: What are you drawing?
Her: Do you give up?
Me: No!
Her: Okay, I’ll draw it easier for you. If you still can’t guess, I’ll press the give up button for you.

(There was no “Give Up” button. She just drew it.)

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Her: I like your floor.
Me: Why?
Her: The floor is like Ikea!

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Kids really do say the cutest things, don’t they? :p

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Song of the Day

The Dope (Wonderful You), by The Dandy Warhols

Visionary. Innovator. Inspiration.

1955 – 2011

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I may have only been a Mac user for 5 years, but I recognise that Steve Jobs has played a very integral role in transforming technology to become what it is today: accessible, sleek, geeky-cool.

Thank you, Mr Jobs.